Two men have been sentenced to a combined 103 years in prison for raping a woman and tossing a burning Christmas tree on top of her. Cedric Harmon, 19, was sentenced on Friday to 69 years in prison by Superior Court Judge Ronald Hauptman. His co-defendant, Mark Green, also 19, was sentenced to 34 years. Prosecutors said the 26-year-old victim, a mother of three, was dragged into a Los Angeles alley Jan. 9, 1986, and gang-raped by five to seven assailants.

An Antelope Valley High student accused of attempting to kill one teacher and trying to rape another could stand trial as an adult. Deputy Dist. Atty. Alan Yochelson said Wednesday a May 12 hearing will determine if the case of the 15-year-old boy, who has been detained at Sylmar Juvenile Hall since his March 27 arrest, will go before an adult court.

Consider two takes on Christopher Hubbart, serial rapist. State psychologist No. 1: He is a bright, shy 43-year-old man who is trying to control his sexual urges, and is truly sorry for his 34 victims. State psychologist No. 2: He is dangerous, unable to control his sexual urges and can be counted on to rape again.

A 24-year-old South-Central Los Angeles man has been sentenced to 171 years in prison for a series of brutal abductions, robberies and rapes. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kathleen Parker on Friday imposed the term on Edwin Mauldin, who was convicted of attacking 13 South-Central and Inglewood area women in a late-1982 crime spree. The prosecutor, Deputy Dist. Atty.

The number of serious crimes reported in the Santa Clarita Valley fell 3% during the first half of 1994 compared to the same period last year. But violent offenses went up, including a 57% increase in the number of reported rapes, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials said Monday. The latest figures indicate that law enforcement officials efforts have reduced robberies and burglaries, a major crime worry last year, said Capt.

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ordered ex-NFL star Darren Sharper to remain in custody, but warned New Orleans officials that he cannot continue to be held indefinitely. Sharper is being without bail on a New Orleans police arrest warrant for two rapes. Los Angeles Judge Renee Korn said that he must be charged by New Orleans prosecutors or the Louisiana governor must seek his extradition. She set a new hearing on the case for March 13. Sharper, 38, has been charged by Los Angeles prosecutors with seven rape and drug counts in connection with two alleged attacks in Hollywood.

The Rape Treatment Center at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center opened an emergency care facility Wednesday that will provide free 24-hour medical help. Authorities said the faster medical care, and gathering of evidence, could lead to more successful prosecutions of rape cases.

More than 250 city leaders and residents rallied in front of City Hall on Tuesday evening to decry the possible release of a serial rapist into the college community. The Department of Corrections plans to release Christopher Evans Hubbart on parole if he passes a psychological examination. "They can't release him if they are afraid for his safety.

A man suspected of being the tattooed rapist, who bore a teardrop-shaped tattoo under his left eye and is blamed for a series of rapes in Los Angeles and other cities in California during the 1980s, has been arrested in Iowa, authorities said Sunday. Frank Everett Comstock, 46, was arrested in a motel in Williams by FBI agents and local sheriff's deputies after they got a tip Saturday that he was in the small farm town, authorities said.

A state appellate court on Tuesday rejected an attempt by Los Angeles County prosecutors to stop a convicted serial rapist from being released in the county. The panel of three appellate justices denied the legal request without comment. A Los Angeles County district attorney's spokeswoman said prosecutors were evaluating their options to continue the effort to stop Christopher Evans Hubbart from being conditionally freed in the county. The office argued in legal papers filed last week with the state's 6th Appellate District that Hubbart, 62, should be released in Santa Clara County, where he committed his most recent crimes.